The Theme of Humanitarianism in the Novel Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: A Critical Study

  • Unique Paper ID: 205703
  • Volume: 13
  • Issue: 1
  • PageNo: 7712-7714
  • Abstract:
  • Samuel Langhorne Clemens (30 Nov, 1835- 21 April 1910) known by the pen name Mark Twain, is an American writer, humorist, playwright thinker and social reformer. He is also known as the father of American literature. He has been praised as the greatest humorist of United States. His major literary works are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889), Pudd'n Head Wilson (1894), and so on. During Mark Twain's time America was suffering several challenges as social, cultural, economic, political and geographical. America was struggling for her national identity and position in the whole world. This was the time when industrial revolution had started in Europe. Mark Twain had studied Darwin and Leakeys. He was familiar with the tide of Realism, human loyalty and wisdom. Most of the characters and the incidents of his novels are real. He understood the human psychology very well. This paper explorers his all-humanistic approaches in his novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

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@article{205703,
        author = {Dr. Ramesh Kumar Shukla},
        title = {The Theme of Humanitarianism in the Novel Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: A Critical Study},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {13},
        number = {1},
        pages = {7712-7714},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=205703},
        abstract = {Samuel Langhorne Clemens (30 Nov, 1835- 21 April 1910) known by the pen name Mark Twain, is an American writer, humorist, playwright thinker and social reformer. He is also known as the father of American literature. He has been praised as the greatest humorist of United States. His major literary works are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889), Pudd'n Head Wilson (1894), and so on. During Mark Twain's time America was suffering several challenges as social, cultural, economic, political and geographical. America was struggling for her national identity and position in the whole world. This was the time when industrial revolution had started in Europe. Mark Twain had studied Darwin and Leakeys. He was familiar with the tide of Realism, human loyalty and wisdom. Most of the characters and the incidents of his novels are real. He understood the human psychology very well. This paper explorers his all-humanistic approaches in his novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.},
        keywords = {Humanism, Democracy, Intellectuality, Wisdom, Adventure.},
        month = {June},
        }

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Shukla, D. R. K. (2026). The Theme of Humanitarianism in the Novel Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: A Critical Study. International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology (IJIRT), 13(1), 7712–7714.

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